Chuck Grassley

I felt that on those types of cases, prosecutors shouldn't be cut out of the equation.

I congratulate you on that.

That type of response, which sounds coached, even robotic at times, doesn't really get us very far.

Congressman Clay urged the President to withdraw your nomination based on Judge Ross' judicial activism, history of racial and gender discrimination.

I extend my welcome to the nominees appearing before us today.

Environmental racism is just another symptom of general racism. We are not going to get environmental justice in this country until we get full social and economic justice.

Too often, nominees appear before us and fail to give meaningful responses.

You have no experience in the Federal court. What experience do you have that qualifies you for a Federal judgeship?

By any fair measure we are moving nominees at a brisk pace.

I tried to advocate for positions that I felt struck an appropriate balance between providing treatment for people in the criminal justice system that needed treatment, but also making sure that it was done in a way that did not jeopardize…

In the first few months that I have been Ranking Member of the Judiciary Committee, as you just stated, we have worked in good faith together to forward consensus nominees.

I think we need to have those provisions reauthorized for a substantial period of time in order to give stability and clarity to our agents in the field who need those tools quite essentially.

I am concerned about efforts to rebuild that wall or weaken those reforms.

Everything that has been on this subject has been said, but I have not said it and, by golly, I am going to say it.

But let me do my job, because we want to make sure that people that interpret the law as opposed to make the law get on our courts.

I cannot find fault with your survey and studying things and being evidence based and all that, but it seems to me that by doing to these two programs what they are doing, they have already made a declaration that those programs are not…

The administration proposes only a small increase in the cap from the Crime Victims Fund, and it would zero out the Federal Victim Notification System.

I want your judgment of whether or not you think it makes sense for us to create new crime victim programs before the existing programs that are now being shortchanged are fully funded.

I think you and I agree on this subject, so I do not know whether I need to speak or not.

Would not a change like this increase burdens on investigators, prosecutors, and the courts?

The legal standard to obtain information should be increased.

If all electronic communications, with emphasis upon 'all,' required a search warrant, the courts would experience additional burdens as well.

If Congress slows down the process, then this could have real-life consequences, you know, particularly where human life is involved?

It takes longer to prepare a 2703(d) order application than a subpoena, and it takes longer to prepare a search warrant application than a 2703(d) order application.

Both witnesses agreed that technology has changed significantly since the law was passed in 1986, but neither witness offered proposals.